Translation

Commentary

The reading of the first four lines is difficult. What follows is speculative. It seems that at the beginning of the second line is a T, followed by a letter and then a lunate letter, possibly C; this is likely the ending of the seal owner's first name, in the nominative. The X at the beginning of the third line is possibly a Christogram, which, if so, suggests for the first two lines the following reading: "[Name] πρωτοσπαθάριος ἐπὶ τοῦ Χρυσοτρικλίνου." The third and fourth lines are also too poorly preserved to provide a definitive reading, though with the lambda in the middle of the fourth line we would not be out of bounds in putting forward as a possibility "judge of the Velum," an office also held by other functionaries at Mangana.